July 30, 2009
The online poker advertising website PokerStars.net and U.S. television network ESPN are partnering in the production of a new, web-only poker show titled “Inside Deal,” scheduled for screening early next (August 2009) month. PokerStars.net will carry the show, which will be hosted by ESPN the Magazine contributor Laura Lane, pro player and ESPN.com columnist Bernard […]
July 30, 2009
Poker Voters of America, a grassroots non-profit association of U.S. poker players who vote and support political leaders who will protect the right to play the game, is looking for a new president following the resignation this week of founder-president Jim Tabilio. The well connected and widely experienced Tabilio was also a principal and senior […]
July 29, 2009
Italian players on the giant online poker site PokerStars.com are being moved across to the company’s PokerStars.it website in order to comply with local regulator AAMS requirements, the company has announced. Regulatory changes become effective in Italy today (July 29th), requiring that only tournament play is permitted; sites operating and licensed in Italy may only […]
July 28, 2009
Danny Chevalier (46) out lasted 134 poker hopefuls to become the PokerStars.net Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Queenstown champion this week, taking the lion’s share of the NZ$301 500 prize pool with a first prize payday of NZ$87 435. This was the first time a poker event of this size had been held in […]
July 28, 2009
New independent statistics from Poker Players Research show that online poker players in the United States continue to dominate the international market notwithstanding the inconvenience of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act which bans financial transactions with offshore online poker companies. The numbers should give American politicians pause this year as Congressman Barney Frank pushes […]
July 28, 2009
AsianLogic, the online gambling company that owns the Asian Poker Tour, has published the full schedule for the APT Macau Festival which will run from August 12–23, this year at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau. Last year’s six day event has doubled in size and will be transformed into a 12 day […]
July 26, 2009
Niki ‘Kaibuxxe’ Jedlicka’s spectacular comeback to nosebleed stakes online poker at Full Tilt Poker.com (see previous News report) continued last night with another lucrative session that enabled him to end the night with a $600 000 profit. This time the Austrian’s main benefactor was Patrik Antonius, who lost some major pots on the $300/$600 PLO […]
July 25, 2009
Online poker giant PokerStars.com has reacted with impressive speed to the sudden Russian ban on poker (see previous reports), switching its EPT to the beautiful and historic coastal town of Kiev in the Ukraine for the tournament. It is not known how PokerStars managed to negotiate the new venue, bearing in mind the Ukraine parliament’s […]
July 24, 2009
The name Jedlicka aka KaiBuxxe has been absent from the online nosebleed tables at Full Tilt Poker for awhile following something of a drubbing that soaked up much of his significant millions in winnings from games in 2007, but this week the young Austrian was back with a vengeance. Playing $200/$400 and $300/$600 6-max PLO, […]
July 23, 2009
The fate of next month’s big PokerStars EPT poker tournament in Moscow remains uncertain following the July 20th removal of the game from the list of recognised Russian sports, bringing it under the current blanket ban on gambling in Russian cities (see previous reports). The Russian Ministry of Youth, Sport and Tourism announced the arbitrary […]